Drupal Usability Meeting 2025-05-02

Created on 25 April 2025, 14 days ago

This meeting takes place every Friday at 14:00 UTC (currently 6:00am PT, 9:00am ET). See Time.is to see what that is in your timezone.

The meetings are held using Zoom, and a link is posted in the #ux Slack channel 10 minutes before the meeting. Agenda is first come, first serve and set by attendees. Use the Needs usability review → issue tag for issues that need review and/or suggest issues in comments here.

List of Slack users to ping 10 minutes before the meeting:
@worldlinemine, @lauriii, @AaronMcHale, @anmolgoyal74, @Ravi, @shaal, @ckrina, @simohell, @gauravvv, @Quynh, @yoroy, @andrei.zvonkov, @Regu.pl

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Recording of this week's meeting: TODO

Rough transcript of this week's meeting: Drupal Usability Meeting - 2025-05-02.txt

We discussed the following issue:

[#TODO]

NR and RTBC issues marked Needs usability review → .

The group is actively tracking progress on these issues:

🌱 [meta] Reorganize Block items in the administration menu Active
✨ [Meta] Appearance page is too long and confusing Active
✨ Allow media items to be edited in a modal when using the field widget Postponed with notes:
- @AaronMcHale: Issue could use some guidance.
  In comment #109 the issue was marked as postponed for needing input from UX, accessibility and media initiative. Apparently there are some outstanding UX/accessibility questions (but I'm not sure what they are). This was echoed in comment #111.
  Comment #144 is asking what is needed to move the issue along (the postponed state seems to be causing some delays/confusion as to how to proceed).
  Perhaps we can at least take a look at what the issue is doing and provide some recommendations/guidance on how it could be implemented.
✨ Provide Drupal root path on file system admin form Needs work
✨ Allow hiding configured blocks in layout builder Needs work
✨ Add visibility control conditions to blocks within Layout Builder Needs work
🐛 Error message presented when a BrokenPostRequestException is fired on AJAX submission can be misleading Needs work
📌 Link field validation constraints don't give enough detail Needs work
✨ Use modal in add new field flow Active

Remaining tasks

Add issue credits for the participants.
Add the issue(s) we discussed to the issue summary and as related issues.
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Issue created by @benjifisher
Comment 10 days ago →
🇫🇮Finland simohell
Linking 💬 Better help text for Date and Time Field Active that is related to the field descriptions review.

Removing from the tracking list ✨ Use modal in add new field flow Active that was fixed in March.
Not removing 🌱 [meta] Reorganize Block items in the administration menu Active since it has some remaining child issues that may be worthwhile to return to.
Comment 7 days ago →
🇩🇪Germany rkoller Nürnberg, Germany
benjifisher → credited rkoller → .
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🇺🇸United States benjifisher Boston area
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🇩🇪Germany rkoller Nürnberg, Germany
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🇺🇸United States benjifisher Boston area
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🇺🇸United States benjifisher Boston area
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🇩🇪Germany rkoller Nürnberg, Germany
left a comment on #2447955-21: Change "Extend" menu item to "Extensions" →

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